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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 8 April 2012

12:40 PM.What if life was a musical and it could help to relieve society from the doom and gloom of the global economic crisis? That's the question posed in a tongue-in-cheek musical created by Nelson-born… Read moreAudio

2:05 PM.A panel recorded at the recent New Zealand International Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in Wellington, debating the premise that theatre is dead. Ken Duncum, teacher of Victoria University’s… Read moreAudio

What if life was a musical and it could help to relieve society from the doom and gloom of the global economic crisis?

That’s the question posed in a tongue-in-cheek musical created by Nelson-born Josh Stewart. He’s created a world where the Prime Minister has his own backing singers, and if you want to live you have to sing for your life. Sonia Sly finds out about the power of musicals and why the TV series Glee has a lot to answer for.

Simon Morris compares and contrast two films aimed at young adults – from Britain Attack The Block, and from America The Hunger Games; and something for the rather older – French feelgood hit The Women On The 6th Floor.